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By Eric SaboBLOOMBERG NEWS • Tuesday March 11, 2014 7:07 AM

Salvadoran Vice President Salvador Sanchez Ceren held a lead of 6,634 votes as the country’s
election chief said the presidential runoff was too close to call and the opposition claimed
fraud.

With 99.9 percent of 3 million votes counted in Sunday’s election, Sanchez Ceren of the
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front had 50.1 percent, to 49.9 percent for Norman Quijano of
the Arena party, the electoral tribunal said on its website. Tribunal head Eugenio Chicas said the
counting in the Central American country was continuing yesterday.

Quijano, citing Sanchez Ceren’s support for Venezuela’s government in a speech on Sunday night,
urged the election tribunal to be “impartial” and called on international observers and the
military to defend against fraud.